mjc0961 said:
I didn't experience any of the "problems" you supposedly had. The game ran great for me!
So... are the rest of us lying? Are these thousands of irritated gamers part of some vast conspiracy to make Obsidian look bad, just because?
As I said last week, PC hardware is a complex business and I'm sympathetic to the effort it takes to get things running on all of those different machines. If you're not one of the affected people, then rejoice and enjoy your game. But if you want me to enjoy the game then you need to mail me your computer, because it doesn't work right on this one.
I love you right now Shamus. I hate that "it worked fine for me!" crap when you discuss problems with games, as if I'm supposed to say "Okay, I am no longer annoyed that it's not working for me" when people say it worked for them.
While I cannot speak for everyone who might have said something to that effect, I think my own position is entirely easy to understand.
Shamus pointed out that he was annoyed that the game was "broken" for him. Others pointed out that they played the game without experiencing the same thing.
How that implies, even for a moment, that I think Shamus is lying is beyond me. In much the same fashion that my experience does nothing to invalidate Shamus' experience, his own experience does nothing to invalidate mine.
And, yet, when addressing this very common topic, he chooses to assemble a straw man argument? I hardly condone such a thing.
I completely believe that Shamus has had problems. I also believe others have had problems. I would even go so far as to agree that, in many cases, the problems people are having are inexcusable simply because the same problem existed in Fallout 3. For example, why do I have the option to turn off the cinematic death animations if, all that does, is make the game break the moment I use VATS? That's a bug from the first game for god's sake!
But, just because I believe Shamus and even agree with his assertion, doesn't mean my own assertion that I didn't have a problem (until I decided to try turning off the Cinematic camera that is) was invalid. Thousands of people saying they had a problem is no better proof of the existence of a problem than thousands of people saying that they didn't after all.